Measuring single-shot, picosecond optical damage threshold in Ge, Si, and sapphire with a 5.1-μm laser
Abstract
Optical photonic structures driven by picosecond, GW-class lasers are emerging as promising novel sources of electron beams and high quality X-rays. Due to quadratic dependence on wavelength of the laser ponderomotive potential, the performance of such sources scales very favorably towards longer drive laser wavelengths. However, to take full advantage of photonic structures at mid-IR spectral region, it is important to determine optical breakdown limits of common optical materials. To this end, an experimental study was carried out at a wavelength of 5 µm, using a frequency-doubled CO2 laser source, with 5 ps pulse length. Single-shot optical breakdowns were detected and characterized at different laser intensities, and damage threshold values of 0.2, 0.3, and 7.0 J/cm2, were established for Ge, Si, and sapphire, respectively. As a result, the measured damage threshold values were stable and repeatable within individual data sets, and across varying experimental conditions.
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- RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC, Santa Monica, CA (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1229525
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-111611-2015-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 2159-3930; R&D Project: KBCH139; KB0202011
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC00112704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Optical Materials Express
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2159-3930
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
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Agustsson, R., Pogorelsky, I., Arab, E., Murokh, A., O"Shea, B., Ovodenko, A., Rosenzweig, J., Solovyov, V., and Tilton, R. Measuring single-shot, picosecond optical damage threshold in Ge, Si, and sapphire with a 5.1-μm laser. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1364/OME.5.002835.
Agustsson, R., Pogorelsky, I., Arab, E., Murokh, A., O"Shea, B., Ovodenko, A., Rosenzweig, J., Solovyov, V., & Tilton, R. Measuring single-shot, picosecond optical damage threshold in Ge, Si, and sapphire with a 5.1-μm laser. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.5.002835
Agustsson, R., Pogorelsky, I., Arab, E., Murokh, A., O"Shea, B., Ovodenko, A., Rosenzweig, J., Solovyov, V., and Tilton, R. Wed .
"Measuring single-shot, picosecond optical damage threshold in Ge, Si, and sapphire with a 5.1-μm laser". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.5.002835. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1229525.
@article{osti_1229525,
title = {Measuring single-shot, picosecond optical damage threshold in Ge, Si, and sapphire with a 5.1-μm laser},
author = {Agustsson, R. and Pogorelsky, I. and Arab, E. and Murokh, A. and O"Shea, B. and Ovodenko, A. and Rosenzweig, J. and Solovyov, V. and Tilton, R.},
abstractNote = {Optical photonic structures driven by picosecond, GW-class lasers are emerging as promising novel sources of electron beams and high quality X-rays. Due to quadratic dependence on wavelength of the laser ponderomotive potential, the performance of such sources scales very favorably towards longer drive laser wavelengths. However, to take full advantage of photonic structures at mid-IR spectral region, it is important to determine optical breakdown limits of common optical materials. To this end, an experimental study was carried out at a wavelength of 5 µm, using a frequency-doubled CO2 laser source, with 5 ps pulse length. Single-shot optical breakdowns were detected and characterized at different laser intensities, and damage threshold values of 0.2, 0.3, and 7.0 J/cm2, were established for Ge, Si, and sapphire, respectively. As a result, the measured damage threshold values were stable and repeatable within individual data sets, and across varying experimental conditions.},
doi = {10.1364/OME.5.002835},
journal = {Optical Materials Express},
number = 12,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
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Fig. 1: A photograph of the in-air system on an optical table, and a schematic diagram of the in vacuum set up. A 10.2-µm laser pulse is matched into ZGP SHG crystal, and generates a 5.1-µm beam, which is separated from the 1st harmonic background via a set of dichroicmore »
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